I watched it yesterday, I rent my movies from my local library I never pay for them especially with the ongoing genocide knowing that most production studios support the Zionist entity. I thought that the black power movement was actually very negatively portrayed in the movie. I find that there is very few Hollywood movies than positively portray the struggle for black liberation and the black experience in Amerikkka. Most movies tend to place white people in the role of the white savior (The Help, The Blind Side, etc are good examples of this). I think Boots Riley’s work is great and I really like The Color People. If any of you have watched Do the Right Thing let me know your thoughts.

Yes, as a Chinese, I want to hear what foreigners think of our country after the reform and opening up. Or if you have any questions about China, I will try to answer them. In addition, please forgive my poor English :(

In a few groups I'm a part of, I have recommended that people read "origins of the family, private property, and the state." This suggestion is often met with pushback which claim that the work is racist and severely outdated. And while there is plenty to criticize about the text, I have yet to see any convincing alternative theories to explain, well, the origins of the family, private property, and the state. And I don't know of any alternative texts to read and recommend which approach the issue from a materialist perspective. Thoughts?

Any recommendations would be appreciated!

I just watched a video on South Korea and I feel like tearing my hair out after the first couple of minutes. How can things like this happen and yet people still say that capitalism is the greatest economic system we have and condemn people for believing that there is a way to solve these problems?

I am so tired of people seeing things that are meant to bring class consciousness but instead blame it on Jews or immigrants and so forth. Karl Marx has written multiple books a hundred years ago and revolutionaries from all over the world have talked about it but people still don't listen.

Every now and then I come across a common problem that is caused by capitalism (e.g.: abundance of advertisements, poor public transportation) and I feel like going on a rant. I feel like my friends don't like being around me because I keep getting political.

Are there any tips to calm down and/or maintain hope that things will get better?

I feel like maybe this is controversial (or maybe it’s a cold take?), but it seems that essentially the aim of the New Deal was to create a wealthier, “superior” white race. This is based on the systematic exclusion of Black people from the benefits of New Deal programs and the remnants we see today in the massive wealth disparity between white people and people of other races?

I also recognize that it was specifically a response to increasing unrest, increasing class consciousness, and the rise of a socialist alternative in the Soviet Union.

Gramsci said a thing.

Hello, I’d like to know if you have any recommendations for learning more about the "Ejército Popular de Liberación" (People's Liberation Army) of Colombia, a guerrilla group that identified as Marxist-Leninist and followed Hoxha's theses. I know that today some remnants of the group still exist, but they have strayed far from their original ideals and are now involved in criminal activities. However, I’m interested in learning about the history of the original organization.

“Pyotr Alexeyev was a very popular figure, and the Moscow Weavers, who affectionately called him "Petrukha," remembered him for a long time. Arrested for carrying on revolutionary activities he made a speech at his trial on March 10, 1877 which he concluded with the following words: "The muscular arm of the working millions will be lifted, and the yoke of despotism, guarded by the soldiers' bayonets, will be smashed to atoms!" Lenin called this speech the "great prophecy of the Russian worker-revolutionary.”

Does anyone have any link or access to his full speech? kindly share it with me here since I'm unable to find it.

Comrades,

I live in Czech republic and I'd like to share my concerns about our primary communist party, "Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM)". I'm afraid the party is starting to move away from Marxism-Leninism.

While KSČM identifies socialism as its ultimate goal, its current program emphasizes “a democratic society of free and equal citizens” built on “political and economic plurality” and explicitly rejects “restrictions on democracy, discrimination, or repression for opinions.” Although I understand their effort to adapt to the modern era, several issues deeply trouble me:

1. Lack of focus on class struggle: The KSČM’s program hardly mentions class struggle, a fundamental pillar of Marxism-Leninism. Without emphasizing the central role of the working class and their fight against bourgeois exploitation, the party risks losing its revolutionary foundation.

2. Western influence on Stalin and the cult of personality: The KSČM seems to have uncritically absorbed Western propaganda about Stalin, dismissing the critical role he played in building socialism, defeating fascism, and leading the USSR. Their outright rejection of "the cult of personality" appears more like a concession to bourgeois narratives than a principled stance.

3. Democratic socialism over revolutionary action: The party seems to prefer a democratic path to socialism, which often leads to reformism instead of genuine revolutionary change. This is at odds with the Marxist-Leninist understanding that bourgeois democracy is inherently a tool of the capitalist class.

4. Pluralism and compromise: Political and economic plurality, as highlighted in the KSČM’s program, risks allowing counter-revolutionary forces to infiltrate and undermine the foundations of socialism.

5. Weak commitment to proletarian internationalism: KSČM focuses heavily on a national context, often neglecting the importance of global solidarity among workers. Marxism-Leninism teaches us that socialism cannot thrive in isolation and requires coordinated international efforts.

I fear that KSČM has become overly influenced by contemporary bourgeois political norms and has lost its revolutionary spirit. A communist party should be the vanguard of the working class, leading the fight against capitalist exploitation, both nationally and internationally.

Have you seen similar trends in communist parties in your country?

Do you think it would be better to try and reform the party from within or to start a new communist party that fully respects the core principles of Marxism-Leninism?

Thank you all for your thoughts.

Baccha Prasad Singh alias Balraj, is a lackey of the Indian state who had been expelled from CPI(Maoist) in 2023 on grounds of his ideological degeneration and counter revolutionary activities. Currently he's been working to infiltrate, and create new revisionist organisations with the label of MLM to break the unity of the new democratic movement in India. This is an article by a student activist from Delhi exposing his revisionism, many points of which are successors of the past revisionist currents.

It seems to me like in Europe the classes who would be the target audience for communist ideas have disappeared, thus giving rise to the horrible working conditions we see in: Bangladeshi sweatshops, Qatar's migrant workers or cobalt miners in Congo.

My question is why under these conditions where people have the most to gain by unionizing and fostering communist political movements, haven't we've seen new communist movements showing up. The idea is already out there, so why hasn't it inspired reforms.

Is it because people in these countries don't have access to the information? even though it is easily reachable on the internet. Is because of bad education on communism or are their governments restricting access to resources?

It also most likely has to do with the US shutting down any genuine attempts at building communism. What do you think are the main reasons? or do I have it wrong in assuming the movement has to come from the workers in the global south?

I'm pretty new to communist ideology and would love to be informed or corrected if i'm wrong about this.

I've scrolling through some threads on Twitter and i've seen ML's and Anarchists go at eachother, it come off to me that a lot of ML's and Anarchist despise one another. Why is this?

(Sorry if this is badly worded i'm not a native english speaker)

I have been thinking of joining a local organization, as it feels stupid to just idly stand by, but there is so little choice and the only real option is a "Titoist" organization. However, I don't really agree with Titoism on a theoretical level. Is it worth joining?

Im also slightly confused on his terminology of ‘liberal communists’ in reference to bill gates and George soros, does he mean that they are liberals who fain elements of communism to seem progressive despite acting in contradiction to communism?

Recently i was reading farm to factory a reinterpretation of the soviet industrial revolution bt Robert C Allen and so far it's a great read

But i stumbled in chapter 3 between bukharin vision for the economy who believed that the state should support all the agricultural sector (by providing them with cheap machines fertilizers) including the kulaks but at the same time encouraging collectivisation he believed that eventually kulaks would run out of money while at the same time the state enhanced both agriculture and industry On the other hand preobrazhensky belived that the state should focus only in rapid industrialization by offering unfavorable trade deals to peasensts and kulaks and take their surplus enforcing most of them to go to urban areas which would enchance industry even more and destroy the kulaks stalin eventually adopted the later policies. Please correct me if i got it wrong also which policy do you think was the better one

(This is just some context; feel free to skip to the next paragraph): I recently came across the NPM (New Public Management) reforms that were making their rounds globally during the neoliberal upswing in the 80s. I'm still very new to socialist politics and theory, and I've been surrounded by people blaming government regulations and the public sector in my country (Norway) for inflation, rising prices and stagnant wages, and struggle for the past decades. When I began reading more about our history, it surprised me to learn how the labor party (currently in government) has been spearheading liberal and free market reforms steadily since the 80s, implementing the NPM model in areas of society such as healthcare. There hasn't been a total uprooting of the welfare state, obviously, but Norway and the labor party are very different today from what they used to be.

Does any of you have any reading suggestions on NPM from a Marxist/socialist perspective? Books, articles, videos, anything is fine. If you have any thoughts on the subject as well, I'd be very interested in hearing about it.

In defense of the homeland and the people’s livelihood. Our country, Syria, has witnessed a radical change in a few days. What the Syrian Communist Party warned about repeatedly has come true: the economic and social policies followed by the former regime would lead to catastrophic results. The comprehensive looting of the state and the people by the new big bourgeoisie, practically spearheaded by key figures in power, led to widespread popular discontent and the complete collapse of the regime’s mass base, resulting in its rapid downfall.

It is worth mentioning that our opposition to the adopted approach was not whispered in closed rooms or narrow circles but was openly expressed in our party’s documents and statements and through all available platforms. As a result of our party’s bold and clear positions, we were symbolically excluded from the government, then from the People’s Assembly, and eventually restricted at the local administration level and various trade union organizations.

This is a brief overview of the past, and the importance of the past lies in drawing lessons for the present and the future. Regarding the present, one of the most tragic outcomes of recent developments is the destruction of the country’s defensive capability by the Israeli enemy, which carried out the largest air piracy operation in a few days, destroying our national defense infrastructure without any real opposition, except for rhetorical and superficial responses to mitigate the justified discontent of any loyal patriot.

Among the dangerous outcomes is the expansion of foreign occupation of our lands. We have seen high commissioners of the mandate state and its funding state gloating joyfully in the wounded Damascus, the ancient Damascus, the pearl of the East, which has always healed its wounds to return as a beacon of civilization in the East. This happened after Hulagu and Tamerlane, and before that, Salah al-Din came to defeat the colonial Western enemy, which the corrupt and feuding Fatimid kings could not face. The fleeing ruler resembles those who placed their interests in wealth and pleasure above the interests of the homeland, despising the people, and consequently losing their thrones and wealth.

The controlling forces currently in power have promised many things, including establishing order and stability. We will see, as practice is the measure of truth.

We, the Syrian communists, see in light of recent changes an increase in the importance of major national tasks, which are:

1. Struggle against foreign occupation and the expulsion of all foreign forces from the homeland.

2. Achieving complete national independence and full national sovereignty.

3. Relentless struggle for the unity of the national territory.

Achieving these noble goals requires the unity of all patriots in our country, and there are many of them.

In addition to these major national tasks, the Syrian communists also see the priorities of the struggle including the following tasks:

1. Achieving democratic freedoms such as freedom of assembly, demonstration, publication, press, and the formation of parties, associations, and unions.

2. Achieving complete equality for all citizens in rights and duties regardless of belief and social origin, and granting full cultural rights to Syrian Kurds and other national minorities.

3. Adopting a new constitution for the country democratically, through a constituent assembly elected on the basis of proportional representation, ensuring broader representation of the country’s citizens.

4. Respecting freedom of belief, which is especially important in Syria’s circumstances. This was recognized with the emergence of the national movement in Syria when its early pioneers raised the slogan: “Religion is for God and the homeland is for all.”

5. Preserving the public sector, which played a significant role in the country’s development and can play an important role in reconstruction and economic development.

6. Restoring social gains that were eroded by the former regime, especially in the fields of free public health services and democratic education.

7. Encouraging national production, particularly in the key sectors of industry and agriculture, protecting it from foreign competition, restoring agricultural security, and working to invest national resources in a way that serves the development of national production and raises the living standards of the majority of citizens.

8. Preserving the social gains achieved for Syrian women and working towards achieving full equality between men and women.

9. Maintaining the richness and diversity of Syrian national culture and encouraging creative artistic work in all fields.

10. In foreign policy, applying the principle of positive neutrality in line with national interests and eliminating any international or regional colonial influence.

The Syrian Communist Party believes that achieving these tasks will restore our country, Syria, to its well-known position as a sovereign and strong nation.

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